Underwater
participants in the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations,
or NEEMO, program usually keep a journal detailing their daily activities.
A complete archive of their journals is available on the Aquarius
Web site.

"Located
off of the shores of Key Largo, Florida, [Aquarius] is truly
a space flight analogy. I have been listening to some beautiful
New Age music as I watch Spotted Eagle Rays, Caribbean Manta/Sting
Rays and a Nurse Shark silently and smoothly cruise the ocean
floor."
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"Consider
living quarters where your kitchen, family room, breakfast
nook, office and workshop are the exact same place! Sound
a bit cramped, does it? Well, the previous description applies
to both the Aquarius Habitat and the Space Shuttle."
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"I have
spent a lot of time in the last 6 months wishing that I were
back living on the International Space Station ... This longing
to be in space is probably why this opportunity to have a
mission under the sea intrigued me."
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"After
shutting off our flashlights, we got to see the most amazing
sight. As our eyes adjusted to the darkness, we saw fireflies
on the sand and floating through the water ... [These] would
... light up just with the wave of a fin or even my hand through
the water."
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"'AccidentlyPinchedbyCaribbeanSpinyLobster'
is not a good call sign ... but 'Pinch' or 'Spiny' are fine
by themselves ... If you accidentally injure yourself during
work say, by cutting your thumb, possible call signs would
be 'Thumb' or maybe 'Slice.'"
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"[A long
dive] starts with some anxiety. How long will it be until
lunch? But anxiety soon fades into new aquatic insights, like
observing how ... a lobster will put its feelers all over
your head if you get face to face with him."
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"Just
think of it ... tele-medicine; performing an ultrasound remotely
to help determine the health of a child or the status of someone's
kidney ... This is real. This is the stuff that was considered
'futuristic' just a decade ago. And here we are, fortunate
enough to be contributing."
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"Well,
I'm back in my bunk again ... yeah, yeah, ask my wife and
she'll tell you I love to get my "beauty sleep (and of course,
you realize it's not helping much!)." It's been really difficult
trying to decide what to write about today."
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"This
morning started off early, with us leaving the habitat just
after 6 a.m. The best part about this dive was that the only
objective was to have some fun! We videotaped some of the
"night-life" using our flashlights to illuminate those interesting
anemone I described earlier and some of the other dramatic
colors in the corals that decorate the habitat."
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"NASA
has developed a training program for long-term spaceflight which
culminates in our current mission aboard the Aquarius. This
program is officially called the 'Expedition Interpersonal Training
Flow', but I prefer to call it 'Advanced Potty Training.'"Read more ...

"For
the past 14 days we have been saturation diving. That means
that we have as much nitrogen within our bloodstream as our
bodies will allow...we are nitrogen saturated. And as is the
case with any diver, now begins the process of removing that
nitrogen from our system."Read more ...